Lerner in Seattle and Bellingham

November 12, 2013

Bellingham, Wa. Nov. 14 (Thursday) at 7 PM:

Rabbi Lerner speaks on “The Spiritual Transformation and Healing of the World: Building a Spiritually Progressive Political Party.” Location: 210 Academic Instructional Center West at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington (park at Fairhaven College, then walk through the tunnel under the road headed toward the main campus buildings. Academic West is the first building on your left).

Rabbi Lerner will address the following question: When the Tea Party conservatives manage to take over the Republican Party in order to defund government and dismantle the programs that protect the poor and the most powerless elements of this society, and the Democrats seem unable to put forward a positive alternative vision, much less to develop a program capable of saving the environment and reversing the political and economic policies and corporate behaviors that have put the earth in danger, and the president seems mired in half-measures and ambivalence, what can the rest of us, ordinary Americans, do to protect our country from its collapse into the hands of right-wing extremists?

Rabbi Lerner will share his vision on how to build a spiritually progressive political movement so we can move American politics from a perspective that hurts the poor and middle class — and undermines the rights and protections won by women, gays, and minorities — toward a perspective that builds love, generosity, and corporate environmental and social responsibility.

Rabbi Lerner is:

“One of America’s most significant progressive intellectuals, and political leaders.”—Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn), the chair of the Progressive Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives

“A rare voice of sanity and intelligence in a nation where our moral values have been corrupted by the greed of the market and the ambitions of empire”—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

“The most significant prophetic public intellectual and spiritual leader of our generation. He inherited this mantle from his teacher and my hero, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel”—Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters and professor of theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City

Others who have endorsed Rabbi Lerner’s writings and his work as editor of the largest circulation interfaith voice of spiritual progressives, Tikkun Magazine, include Karen Armstrong, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Jimmy Carter, Harvey Cox, Jim Wallis, Rev. Brian McLaren, and many more.

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